St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-16
SOUTHERN Gl.EANINGS.

a few DAYS since, turned up 81, 100 IN gold
supposed to have been buried during the
war.
Mr. John Green, aged eighty four, and
one of the oldest, if not the Oldest, citizens
of Bibb County, Ga. is said to be at the
point of death.
Two prominent lawyers of Newbcrry,
S. c. exchanged nine shots in croWde"
courtroom few days since, one OF them
being fatally wounded.
The cotton mills of the West Point (Ga.)
Manufacturing Company were totally
consumed by fire few nights ago. The
loss is $:0),0)0; insurance, SIS LW).
The Raleigh, On. c. Cottonseed Oil
mills and fertilizer factory were burned
few days ago. Loss $4,000 Insurance
5000 The fire was probably accidental.
The Tennessee Senate has passed a bill
to require railroad companies to establish
comfortable waiting rooms at all stations
where tickets are sold the act to take Ell
feet six months after passage
During a heavy thund er-storm when
swept over Florida, few nights ago. the
lightning set fire toa store in lnternachen,
a little town about fifteen miles south OF
Jacksonville Before the flre was gotten
under control two of the largest stores IN
the place were destroyed; also, two pri-
yate residences and one office, causing
loss of fully $1,000.
Cattle in the Texas drought district are
reported perishing for water.
A one-hundred- and two year old woman
in Rocl1dale County. Ga, can threa ID
needle as easily as any one, and walks
five miles a d " regularly.
There is farm one hundred miles long
Nd opa hrDH rad miles w 6p in T,oII Sana.
It cost $4,000 to fence it.
A great chicken main is arranged to
take place at Parkersburg, Va, during
the Easter holidays. About two hundred
battles will be fought
A. NJ. Smith. a lawyer of Calvert Tex.
was foully murdesed while blowing in
his field a few days ago, by some unknown
person.
\ potato crop disease, called the
''blght," has broken out in Louisiana, and
is doing great damage.
Fears are expressed in the South that
the fruit crop has been injured by recent
fros's. and already experts are giving
warned and differing testimony in the mat
ter
Captain C. f. Dutton. of the Geological
Survey, in studying upon the Charleston
earthquake, ascertalned that the waves
Travelled between four thousand and five
thousand meters per second.
a man with wonderful beard
has been attracting attention in
Runnels County, Tex. 1t Is alleged
that he ties it about his neck fo-
mufier. uses it as a chest-protector, and
curls up under it at nght instead Of using
blankets.
Mrs John Kennedy Of Louisville, Ky,
has just heen committed to an insane
asylum for entertaining the strange hal
lucination that her real husband and her
two children have been spirited away and
others substituted in their stead.
A fire at Columbus, Ga, a few DAYS
ago destroyed the shoe sore of ". r.
Bedell and the clothing store Of J. K Har-
ris & Co. Bcdell's loss is S!1,0)0; insur-
ance. $1,000 Harris & Co 8 less IS $4,000;
insurance, $4,000. The dry goods store of
j. A. Krven & Co. was slightly damaged
by smoke and water. Loss covered by in
surance.
Near Beulah, Miss, few evenings
since W. L. Lowe, n member of the Leg
islature from Bolivar County. shot Char
lie Yaman several times. from the result
of which Yaman died three hours after
ward. As far as can be learned the diff
Guilty arose through Yaman's intimacy
with loves wife.
Betsy Cook colored, living few miles
from Brookhaven, Miss, went to field
to work few days ago, leavin z her
three small children 10 take care of their
house. On her return she found the house
in ashes and her three children burned to
death
Mother Sympporas, of the Sisters of
Lorette, was buried at Montgomery, Ala,
a few days ag>. She had been for several
years Mother Superior of the Roman Cath
Ollie convent there, and was greatly beloved
by the whole community. She was horn
at LDrette, KY, forty-tive years ago, of
parents named Warren. and dedicated
her life to the sisterhood at the age of fif-
teen.
A Jury at Daingerf I'D, Tex, in the case
of Mrs. Culberson against the East Line
railroad, branch of the Missouri Pacific,
for damages for killing her husband, a
conductor on that road, brought in a ver-
diet assessing the damages at $4,000
Sc, 000 for the support of herself and $1,000
each for the support of her two little chill
dren.
Tarletoa Steel, colored, killed his wife
with an axe few days ago, near Ada,
Ala, in dispute He then took her
body into the woods about a mile inland,
piled brush on it and pourcl kerosene
over it and burned the body. The negro
was jailed and confesses the CRIME.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has
overruled the petition for hearing in the
case Of John j. Cornelison VS.. Common.
wealth. This is Cornelison's last resort
to evade the punishment decrced against
him for assaulting with a cowhidc Judge
Richard Reid, in Mount Sterling, in May,
1884
The pro spects for the peach crop in
Kentucky are good: also for other fruits
to the extent of their culture.
Fruit raisers in Louisiana are sanguine
as to the prospects for good crops. Early
vegetables are in excellent condition.
Reports from various portions of Mis-
sissippl give good promise for abundant
crops of all kinds of fruits in the absence
of future adverse conditions.
Tennessee correspondents agree or the
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